Qualified: No. 5 (lane choice)
The Competition: No. 12 Blake Alexander
The Results:
Q1: 3.766 E.T. at 324.28 MPH (Three bonus points for quickest run of the session)
Q2: 3.766 E.T. at 322.04 MPH
Q3: 3.741 E.T. at 322.88 MPH (One bonus point for third quickest run of the session)
Q4: 3.742 E.T. at 328.22 MPH
Bonus Points: Four
Quotable:
“We feel good. We went down all four laps the last two days, a pair of 76s Friday, a pair of 74s today. We’ve got a really consistent car. That’s something to say – that we can race with a package like that. We wanted to go quicker, but we were trying stuff, going back and forth to try to pick the car up. Now we have some insight on where we need to move to be really competitive tomorrow. We have lane choice first round so we’ve got to go out there and give it all we’ve got and take it from there. We’ll see if we can make this Matco Tools Maximus 3.0/U.S. Army car do what it do, like Ray Charles.”